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'We have no information to share at this point,' spokeswoman May Lam-Kobayashi said.

The Opus building is seen in the background third from the left on the left hill in Hong Kong

She added however that tenants recently leased another unit at the property for £69,360 a month.

Local media reported that the sale beat the city's previous record price of £29.3million paid for a unit at another luxury property last year.

'This is definitely a new record price for any Hong Kong apartment,' Centaline research head Wong Leung-sing said.

The building was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry

'But we think it's an isolated case as this is an ultra luxury condo,' Wong said, adding that it could not be used as a yardstick to gauge investors' appetite for luxury apartments in the Asian financial hub.

Property prices in Hong Kong, famous for its sky-high rent and super-rich tycoons, have surged over the past few years due to record low interest rates and a flood of wealthy buyers from mainland China.

The property market however has seen a slowdown this year, with sentiment hit by the eurozone crisis and plans to boost public housing.

Even so, many residents complain they can no longer afford decent accommodation in the city of seven million people, and analysts say property ownership is out of reach even for the upper middle class.

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'Ultra luxury condo' in Hong Kong which takes up an entire floor of 12-storey tower block sells for £40m to unknown buyer